Another Driver Has Window Shattered, Causes Remain A Mystery

CBS Local Media, CBS Radio Inc. ^ | April 28, 2015 | CBS4, CBS Denver

[familyop]

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (CBS4) – Five times now a vehicle’s window has been shattered while traveling in Northern Colorado. The latest happened Tuesday morning on Interstate 25 in Fort Collins. A driver remains hospitalized after a bullet came through her window last week. There are also cases under investigation in Loveland, Mead and Keenesburg. The struggle now is trying to find a common link in the cases...Deputies still have no leads in last week’s shooting, and there’s still a possibility at least some of the broken windows are just a coincidence.

[familyop]

Must keep it all low key and consider tourism, you know. The broken windows were from a sniper. Happened to me up on the Range on May 1st (May Day?) about three years ago.

[bluejean]

Coincidence my ***!!! Seriously?? Yeah windshelds DO spontaneously break that often - in the Ft Collins Triangle.

[Secret Agent Man]

Another pissed off black muslim sniping from a truck concealment.

[catman67]

“Another Driver Has Window Shattered, Causes Remain A Mystery”?????

I thought that the cause(s) were quite clear; a bullet through the windshield!

[Flick Lives]

[Lion Den Dan]

Coincidence my ***!!!

I have three magic beans to sell you too.

[aumrl]

Dear CBS,

It’s the Bullet stupid !

[Cowgirl of Justice]

I was driving on I-77 to our farm and passed a rest stop. There was no one in front of me as far as I could see. Suddenly, pop - there was a perfectly small round hole in my windshield. I made it to our farm to show hubby and called insurance. They put me in touch with a repair shop that only did windshields and I told the woman it looked like a bullet hole. I drove to the shop and explained who I was and she was telling me how many people came to her claiming bullet holes, blah, blah, blah and then she saw my windshield. “Oh my God!, she said,”that’s a bullet hole!” No bullet was ever found so I never knew what that was about.

[smokingfrog]

Four incidents in 3 days.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/mystery-colorado-highway-shooting-25-points-serial-attacker/story?id=30553323

[IYAS9YAS]

Coincidence my ***!!!

Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."

Auric Goldfinger in Ian Fleming's "Goldfinger"

[UCANSEE2]

I don’t understand how a bullet can go through your windshield, but not leave a similar hole or mark exiting your vehicle, given that you could not find a bullet in your vehicle.

[Ditter]

In which state did the bullet through your windshield occur?

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Not sure. There was no car in front of me as far as I could see. It was a perfectly round hole a pencil could have been put through. The woman’s reaction at the windshield replacement shop made me believe it was something other than a random pebble.

This was in NC.

[minnesota_bound]

It could have been a shot from a phased plasma rifle.

[familyop]

"I thought that the cause(s) were quite clear; a bullet through the windshield!"

Yes. Worse, side front windows were shot out in some cases, back windows at other times. And there have been occurrences not shown in the news because of claims that there's no proof of those occurrences being related to the publicized ones.

Some random thoughts from ballistics information in the past...

In the case of the young woman, the bullet slipped right through her neck, apparently without causing a wide wound. Why didn't it cause more damage? That may indicate a slower moving bullet, either slow to begin with or from a long range. Pistol round, 300 AAC Blackout,...? Hard to tell. Bullets tend to hardball after going through something and may not expand much. Could've been nearly anything depending on range, etc.

To all here, if a bullet path is not very perpendicular to a laminated window, it can hit the window from somewhat of an oblique angle, break the window with a loud pop, making a non-round hole and bounce off to the outside somewhere.

From the looks of the several incidents, I'll say that the bullets were probably greater in diameter than .224 (.223) and fired from concealment at fairly close range, maybe even with some sound suppression.

Could be wrong, though. Could be a demented nerd firing from long distance, but that would really be difficult with moving vehicles (speed estimations, lead distances, etc.). Probably not.

[familyop]

My guess, the rounds have a fairly poor ballistic coefficient (not barrier blind) along with being fired from concealment nearby (another vehicle, structure next to the road, ditch, whatever) and maybe with some kind of sound suppression (maybe).

[familyop]

Yes. Objects (even bullets that have lost some of their velocity) can bounce off of laminated glass and leave a small, round hole.

[familyop]

An allusion, perhaps, to Mohammad Pedro Whitaker in the KC area? Looks a little different, when they include his whole head in the picture and his whole name.

http://thesop.org/story/20140421/why-did-kansas-city-hwy-shooter-mohammad-whitaker-drop-off-a-walmart-bag-of-ammo.html

It appears from news, that he used a .380 auto (tiny semi-auto pistol), BTW. I suspect a round-nosed pistol bullet of some kind in the Colorado attacks—something with a little more velocity and weight. But we’ll see...maybe.

[UCANSEE2]

Yes. Objects (even bullets that have lost some of their velocity) can bounce off of laminated glass and leave a small, round hole.

Thank you.

[Polynikes]

Probably using a Glaser safety round. Total fragmentation dissipates on the surface or slightly interior. Fragments probably lost on highway